ABs vs Wales - Live Chat & Banter

 Yes, Pakie. Typical slow start for the AB in spite of 2 weeks practice before this game.

 Cross kick for Naholo by Cruden almost comes off. 

 Famuina on for Franks.

 Cruden making his presence felt, first with a pin point chip down the touch line and then a half break close to the line that ends up forcing an easy penalty for the ABs. All square at 18-18.

 ABs should have scored the try but settle for 3 from Cruden. All tied up at 18 after 48 mins.

 Silly kickable penalty given away by the AB, playing the player in the air at the lineout.

 Bigger missed, ABs let off the hook on that one.

 Biggar misses .

 Penalty against AB. George North is having a very good game. Missed tackles by ABs.

 Wales on the attack after a North break. Long loopy skip pass wide probably did Wales no favours there. They have the penalty though. 21-18 Wales as Biggar converts.

 Wales up 21-18 after 52 mins. More changes for ABs.

AB getting the offloads going .  

 Penalty Wales, AB not rolling away. Biggar sends Wales back to the AB 22.

 Barrett has brought some crispness to the AB backline. Cruden can kick for poles from the Wales 10m line.

 ABs win the line out against the throw & get penalty down field. A. Savea coming on.

Penalty missed. AB recovers brilliantly from another poor pass. Naholo one on one with Williams. Williams does just enough in the tackle to slow him down and allow Wales #2 to force him into touch.

AB take a quick tap penalty, feeds Naholo who crashes over. TMO to confirm.

 Naholo takes the ball from A. Smith off the penalty & scores? Try!!

 Abs up 25-21. game not over yet.

AB starting to dominate. Wales need to stay in touch now...and not spill the ball on attack on the AB 22 like they just did.

 Handling errors 12-7 with Abs making more errors.

 Now the otherwise mercurial Williams drops his own high kick. Wales making multiple replacements.

 AB scrum. Clearing kick, ABs on attacking line out. Rolling maul.

 Reid scores under the posts. Wales are wilting. 32-21

 Concerted attack from AB and Keiran Read finds just enough space to crash over under the sticks. Co uld be game over now for Wales.

 Wales on attack, ABs look flat.

 Wales on attack, ABs look flat.

 Wales on attack 10m out. Must score now. But they turn it over. 

 Great try but last pass to TJ may have been forward. Came back out his hand but ref says forward.

 All over as Cruden breaks inside is own half and AB scores. Scoring pass to Perenara ruled forward by Barnes. Not sure about that one. Looked okay to me.

Wales 8 scores but surely he was in front of the kicker.

 Wales may have scored off a free kick but may have been in front of the kick.

 Way in front, not even close.

 Fekitoa is subbed by a rookie. We will see how he goes. Ardie had two big runs but we haven't heard much of hims since. Still 6 mins to go.

 Wales look spent. They were easily the AB equal for 60 minutes, but as is so often the case the AB dominating the last 20.

 North bounces out of a Naholo tackle. He has been a beast.

 Wales lose another attacking lineout, but end up with an attacking 5m scrum. Lucky to get away with it as they had a player ahead of the kick again.

 Yes, Naholo has had a tough day on defence. 5 m scrum to Wales.

 Wales lose it on the AB tryline. AB counter attack.

 Naholo repays North by running through him, before offloading to a Welshman.